It's been almost a year and a half since I learned of Neville Goddard. I learned about manifestation and "the Law," and I've been reading the books that he published. I feel like I'm becoming better and better in recognizing the life around me. I got rid of 20 years of depression, and I've been able to change my mentality. I'm a lot more aware of my feelings and quicker to correct my old habits of self-loathing and overthinking. If I go down a route where I feel like it's inevitable, I change my thought and it feels lighter, and I feel like I can do as much as I can for myself...I can do what I can for myself. It doesn't feel hard anymore.
It's still a process though because sometimes I overthink even my overthinking which makes me laugh writing this.
But, there's something that's been hurting me.
I discovered Neville Goddard through a man I met. We rarely talked before (we work in the same company), and he introduced me to NG because he recognized my heartbreak. I've been in love with a coworker for a while now. Maybe people can argue it's not love, but I've been smitten by him the first day we met, and he's shown me he was smitten by me too through funny behavior and overcompensations, to romantic and embarrassing lines and gestures... but he never did anything about it.
When I learned about NG, I was ecstatic to find I can change this! I can bridge this gap between us, and I have been able to do that - it's just a work in process...but something's been lingering in the back of my mind.
The coworker who I met is someone who's been on the spiritual path for a long time. I'm not sure what stage of life he is in, but his goal is to become one with the universe - and he feels like it'll take him another 3-4 years to reach that state and forever "be gone" from our world. I know he has more insight than I do about this universe, and maybe I will never be close to understanding what he knows because I don't show interest in that... I want to live a happy life, that is my priority. Neville Goddard said never to tell people of what you manifest as they will reflect all the insecurities back to you. Well, me and this coworker often talked about our goals and he was giddy to tell me about his, so I thought maybe it would be okay... But I was wrong.
I told him the person I wanted to be with. I longed strongly for him. He's the only person I long for, I can't even imagine falling in love with anyone else.
My coworker told me that we weren't good for one another. He was adamant and said that this man was a "fire body type" and I was a "water body type" and we were just not good for each other, and that "manifesting someone specific was evil."
That hurt me a lot. The least I wanted to do was cause the person I wanted to be with the most...this evil.
After discovering how to calibrate 'truths' via David R. Hawkins, he started 'asking Angels' if manifesting a specific person was 'bad,' and he was astonished that "it wasn't." So he told me he was going to ask why and figure out why because all his life he was taught it was. He still said it was a bad thing for me to try to be with the person I want to be with.
After that conversation, I distanced myself away from this coworker, and furthermore got into a spiral of self-hate and hatred towards him.
I'm convinced that I want to be with this person. I want to try to be with him. But I feel a sadness where I feel like I shouldn't because it's something that someone who has more experience than me tells me not to.
But I feel bad when I do. I do try. I still try. And when I give up, I get dreams of him touching me and talking to me. I never get dreams with him unless when it's at the point where I give up.
I guess, I'm not sure what to do...? How do I stop myself from hating someone who has my well-being in mind, and who establishes his authority? How do I stop hating myself for still liking this man and trying to move on? How do I stop hating myself trying to still be with him?
And do those dreams mean anything? Is it okay...?
Edited: I actually don't hate him, but I can tell I scrutinize him when I'm in a lower mood than I usually am...and that bothers me.